Midnight Star
Contributor
myth: Buying diving gear online is ALWAYS a bad idea and potentially life threatening due to poor quality or refurbished equipment.
Welcome to ScubaBoard, the world's largest scuba diving community. Registration is not required to read the forums, but we encourage you to join. Joining has its benefits and enables you to participate in the discussions.
Benefits of registering include
Actually, the first sentence is true. It's the second that's the myth.awap:Myth: Your regulator is life support equipment. You are not allowed to work on it.
No fair. We may have to wait 50 years or more to find out if that statement is a myth or is accurate. :1poke:miketsp:Sharks will attack me while diving.
matt_unique:Cold water and the necessary/significant increase in gear (drysuit, etc.) are examples of things that affect SAC long before 10lbs of extra lead.
--Matt
Ohmygoodness! 50%!!! Sounds like a lot, doesn’t it? How much is this really?Temple of Doom:If your BC is currently inflated to produce 20lbs of lift, and you add another 10lb weight to your belt, you're increasing the amount of air you're going to have to put into your BC (throughought your entire dive) by 50%. This isn't a very unrealistic scenario.
Does the above help?Temple of Doom:Please try not to get snide, this conversation is going in a good direction, let's not side-track it. If you disagree with what I'm saying, say so and explain why (if you choose).
roakey:When a discussion like this starts, an unwritten assumption is “all other factors being equal.” Maybe we need to start writing it…
wettek:.............water is a few thousand times denser than air......